Former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood may be the highest-ranking member of the truck stop giant charged in a $92 million fraud scheme, but his defense attorney made clear Tuesday just who was in charge.
"[Chief Executive Officer] Jimmy Haslam III and [Pilot founder] Jim Haslam II were in charge of this company, and they supervised Mr. Hazelwood," attorney Andy Drumheller told jurors in opening statements in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga.
Drumheller's message to jurors: Hazelwood, 58, was as clueless about the fraud scheme being carried out in Pilot Flying J's Knoxville headquarters as Jimmy Haslam repeatedly has said he was.
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